DOCUMENT SOURCE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Otice Records Series Title Ee. Accession No. File Code No. 9-44 Carton No. 2 Ete Folder No. Found By EAHai teed é Dates 60 know all these people personallygrand discuss their . research probles stand help them if they could, SSH: Why didn't Hamtjton do that? eMhue ds Gy UseWell, Whe Padicatiuwh: KGS: ‘ he didn't have any facil i ‘ 7a Lae e fag He was on f@éommittee which formally set up my laboratory. e 7 A &ndvne used to come around once in while, when he wasn't feeling too well, and remind me of the fact that dromweacis—a,fact?” jehecommiteee-oadthe committee he was on was my advisory committee. Well T didn't ask him anything. I knew what I wanted to do and I went ahead and did it. SSH: Why do you suppose you were chosen for that position? KGS; I have no idea, excepiformaybe the University's experience with me at Bikini. SSH: Could it also be something to do with the fact that you seem to be able to get along with the clinicians and you were on good enough terms with Hamilton? In other words you. weren't a terribly controversial figure. KGs: . Well, they didn't know thengrGhen they put me in that position. They knew I was one of Stone's protege, which was something that was so much in my favor around there that I don't think anyone would have crossed him on it. " SSH: ' How did you become a protege® of Stone's? KGS: Through the Manhattan District, and before that. SSH: What had been oa relationship in the war years? E-meat” : pow ee?youbas dpove’dealings with him? KGS: I used to see "pin about once a month.I'd go back to theUniversity of Chicago and have a dinner with him and talk to hin.